GDANSK (Reuters) -Orange Polska on Monday reaffirmed its 2025 full-year guidance for revenue and core earnings and posted an 18% year-on year rise in second-quarter net profit to 272 million zlotys ($74 million).
Analysts polled by Reuters had expected the net profit to come in at 272 million zlotys.
The company said the profit increase was driven by the sale of its Orange Energia business to the Finnish energy group Fortum earlier this year. The sales was part of a drive to focus on core businesses, its CFO Jacek Kunicki said in a statement.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
Orange Polska is the largest listed telecoms company in Poland by market capitalisation, valued at 11.72 billion zlotys, ahead of media group Cyfrowy Polsat at 9.96 billion zlotys.
CONTEXT
In March, Orange Polska presented its strategy for 2025-2028, setting a dividend per share floor of 0.53 zlotys and forecasting organic cash flow of at least 1.2 billion zlotys by 2028.
BY THE NUMBERS
Second-quarter 2025 revenue at the Polish business of France’s Orange rose 1% to 3.16 billion zlotys, while EBITDA after leases rose 4% to 891 million zlotys.
KEY QUOTES
“Customer bases across all our key telecom services maintained their healthy pace of growth as we are coping well with a demanding competitive environment,” CEO Liudmila Climoc said in a press release.
“In the second half of the year, we will focus on preserving strong commercial momentum by rolling out a wide array of appealing offers for our customers ahead of the peak seasons,” she added.
($1 = 3.7623 zlotys)
(Reporting by Marta Maciag;Editing by Matt Scuffham)
